Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Counsel General – in the Senedd at 2:31 pm on 15 February 2017.
Well, isn’t what is immoral and totally wrong the scaremongering campaign, which is still going on eight months after the referendum campaign—the ‘remain’ camp’s project fear? As the Counsel General will know, the United Kingdom is a signatory of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which refers to the acquired rights of citizens of the signatory countries, and which protects them in respect of the rights that they’ve built up before any treaty change takes place. And so, any subsequent treaty that is signed by that country cannot diminish or undermine those rights. This was accepted by the European Economic Community—as it then was—when Greenland left the community, and the commission referred to what were called then vested rights, which would be preserved following Greenland’s leaving what we now call the union. Therefore, any scaremongering on this issue is completely and utterly wrong, and actually it is extraordinary that we are still having this argument so many months after the referendum.